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Is it possible to add a graphical tool to join easier a NFS server?

It would be able to :
- install nfs-common automatically
- create a new default directory (i.e /media/nfs) or by a manual choice
- set ip address of NFS server
- submit previous datas to /etc/fstab
- mount NFS file system, (like sudo mount -a)
- (optionally) seek for all nfs servers on local network

I think than nautilus-connect-server is good place to add this stuff.

Usually what keeps me from updating is just the bandwidth. I don't like to update if I'm not going to be nearby to address any issues that arise, and I don't like to have all my bandwidth (which isn't so great) taken up by a 200MB set of updates.

I would like to see the ability to throttle how much bandwidth the update process takes. Also, having the ability to do this in Synaptic would make it much nicer for when you wish to download some of the bigger games.

a lot of times, text is not copied. even if i cut, the selected text disapears in firefox and isn't pasteable in pidgin. sometimes the clipboard is an older version, if i paste.

While requesting features to the open source community which consist mainly of free workers, we may often forget to say how much we like Ubuntu and look like costumers requesting.

So you can say thank you to the thousands of developers and users who gave their time by voting for this article :)

Archives are opening in applications like File Roller. Why? When you thing about you realize that archive is nothing less than special type of folder (and folder is special type of file with defined structure dependent on filesystem). But archives can be presented as compressed folders and opens in same windows as regular folders. Why do we need to confuse user with different windows?

Working with archives will be easy as in Midnight Commander or in Total Commander or in Windows XP. And if it will be implemented like VFS (zip://path/archive.zip/subdirectory/file) or as kernel driver it will be easier due to be transparent to any application.

Update: If gvfs is not possible, mounting the archive could be another possible way to implement this.

Archive managers should be used only for creating archives with non common attributes, e.g. encrypted, splitted to multiple volumes (to fit DVD, CD, ZIP drive, Floppy)...

Note: When you try to drag big file out from the archive from File Roller you need to wait to fully uncompress file before releasing mouse button (once it started to uncompress it). It's bad and very annoying.

(Idea copied from: http://chabada.sk/better-desktop/)

While both Evolution and Thunderbird are great applications, Thunderbird should become the default email client available on Ubuntu.

Ideas which are done (or work in progress) should have the voting arrows removed or replaced with a tick for done(or working symbol).

That makes it immediately obvious to people the idea is being actively worked on, or is going to be, at which point, voting no longer has any influence on the idea anymore anyway.

The status of projects isn't obvious enough, so doing this will make it more obvious, and make more sense overall.

Add a system wide address book that can be accessed from all applications that may need it (Thunderbird, Evolution, Kontact, ...)

There should be an easy way to create via GUI network profiles - where network address, various log-ins, shares, printer, TOR, firewall and proxy settings etc etc are all linked together into profiles - for me e.g. "Home", "Work", "Cafe", "church" etc.

There are scripted ways to do this, but via GUI would be wonderful.

Another thing that would be nice to see in GEdit would be a search and replace that worked from Regular Expressions. The built in search and replace is nice, but as far as I know it does not handle regex.